Quiz

Discrete Probability Distributions

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Solve the following problems. Show your complete solutions in a long bond paper. (2 pts. for each correct
answer)

Discrete Uniform Distribution

1. A roulette wheel is divided into 25 sectors of equal area numbered from 1 to 25. Find a formula for the probability
distribution of X, the number that occurs when the wheel is spun. In particular, determine the probability that the number
greater than 18 occurs when this wheel is spun.

Binomial Distributions
2. Car color preference change over the years and according to the particular model for the customer selects. In a recent
year, 10% of all luxury cars sold were black. If 10 cars of that year and type are randomly selected, find the following
probabilities:
a. At least 5 cars are black.
b. At most six cars are black.
c. More than 4 cars are black.
d. Exactly four cars are black.
e. Between three and five cars (inclusive) are black.

3. A multiple-choice quiz has 15 questions, each with 4 possible answers of which only one is the correct answer.
a. What is the probability that sheer guesswork yields from 5 to 8 correct answers?
b. How many correct answers would you expect based on sheer guesswork?

Multinomial Distributions
4. According to a genetics theory, a certain cross of guinea pigs will result in red, black, and white offspring in the ratio
3:2:1. Find the probability that among 8 offspring 5 will be red, 2 black, and 1 white.

Hypergeometric Distribution
5. If 7 cards are dealt from an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards, what is the probability that
(a) exactly 2 of them will be a face card?
(b) at least one of them will be an ace?

6. A company is interested in evaluating its current inspection procedure on shipments of 50 identical items. The
procedure is to take a sample of 5 and pass the shipment if no more than 2 are found to be defective. What proportion of
20% defective shipments will be accepted?

Multivariate Hypergeometric Distribution

7. A car rental agency at a local airport has available 5 Toyotas, 7 Nissan, 4 Kias, 3 Mitsubishis, and 4 Hondas. If the
agency randomly selects 9 of these cars to chauffeur delegates from the airport to the international convention center, find
the probability that 2 Toyotas, 3 Nissans, 1 Kia, 1 Mitsubishi, and 2 Hondas are used.

Negative Binomial and Geometric Distributions

8. A coin is biased so that its head is three times as likely to occur as tail. If a person flips this coin, what is the probability
that he gets
(a) the third head on the seventh flip?
(b) the first tail on the ninth flip?

Poisson Distribution
9. Customer arrivals at a checkout counter in a department store have a Poisson distribution with an average of eight per
hour. For a given hour, find the probability that
(a) Exactly eight customers arrive.
(b) No more than three customers arrive.
(c) At least two customers arrive.

10. The number of telephone calls coming into the central switchboard of an office building averages four per minute.
(a) Find the probability that no calls will arrive in a given 1-minute period.
(b) Find the probability that at least two calls will arrive in a given 1-minute period.
(c) Find the probability that at least two calls will arrive in a given 2-minute period.